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Even the UN has admitted that the world will not be able to achieve gender equality by 2030, partly due to the setback from the social and economic fallout brought by the Covid-19 pandemic....

The founder of Frank, a now shuttered college financial planning platform that was sold to JPMorgan Chase for $175 million, has been charged by the SEC with fraud....

And there arose in Riyadh a prince who knew Israel pretty well, all things considered. Mohammed bin Salman, acronymised as "MBS" and demonised for the killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, wants Saudi Arabia to become a world ...

The transformation of Israel from an undeveloped desert economy to the Silicon Valley of the Middle East in just 75 years is one of the most inspiring narratives of our time. The Israel of 1948 was about Jaffa oranges, Dead Sea chemical plants and low-val...

A story is told of a memo sent in diplomatic post from the British embassy in Tel Aviv to the Foreign Office in the early 1950s which forecast that the newly-formed Jewish State would soon become a Soviet-leaning dictatorship. The British diplomat's r...

The biggest question this week in Israel is whether they will take a break. The tentative answer is — not yet. Everyone knows that the question refers to The Protest — that amorphous group of individuals and organisations who have succeeded in...

There is something perfectly calibrated — a kind of planetary alignment — about Israel's choice of Eurovision contestant in the run-up to the country's 75th anniversary celebrations. Like Israel, Noa Kirel is precocious. At just 21, sh...

Former chancellor Nigel Lawson, a towering figure in British politics credited with overseeing the economic boom of the 1980s, passed away on Monday at the age of 91. Lord Lawson was born on March 11, 1932 to a Jewish family in Hampstead, north London. Hi...

Khalid al-Jabouri was the target of a strike on Monday that reportedly took place in Idlib province....

When Maidenhead Synagogue asked the Ukrainians who attend the English class it runs what relatives back home were most in need of, the answer was a surprise. Rather than medicine or blankets, it was pet food. With many refugees unable to take their pets w...

Now he is forbidden from standing as a Labour candidate in Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn is preparing for a final battle. He will stand as an independent, or maybe a Green, if they will have him. Or maybe he will form his own political party. His support...

European inflation presents a mixed bag, with eases in inflation when energy and food prices are included in measures, but persistence when excluded....

A Labour activist who was allegedly behind a Twitter account that claimed Zionists collaborated with the Nazis and called the Chief Rabbi "a white supremacist" says he has been expelled by the party. Damian McCarthy, a former barrister who was dis...

MPS are demanding that the government acts to ban Iran's brutal Revolutionary Guards as a campaigner's hunger strike over the issue enters its 40th day. Vahid Beheshti, a British-Iranian journalist, is protesting in Whitehall over the lack of prog...

Prime Minister Netanyahu added insult to injury by characterising Smotrich's shocking declaration, in a tweet four days later, as...

An unknown Manchester artist is to have his work displayed alongside Picasso, Dali and Andy Warhol after one of his paintings caught the eye of illusionist Uri Geller. Daniel Adler has been commissioned to produce a piece for Geller's museum in Tel Av...

Following its rescue sale last month, embedded banking platform Railsr has brought in a new management team, led by the former boss of blockchain firm Setl, Philippe Morel....

The centre forms part of the new capital, which has been purpose-built to move people from Cairo....

Levi's recent campaign, using an AI-generated model to improve their ESG results, wasn't welcomed with open arms by the general public....

Speaking at Merchant Payments Ecosystem 2023, Ivan Vukelikj, Senior Product Manager Secure Digital Payments, Netcetera, discusses how the adoption of 3DS will contribute to the improvement of digital payment services....

A committee cites examples of "clumsiness" and "hurtful comments" in communication with families....

Jenson8 CEO and founder Jena Davidson has spoken on her VR platform looking to bring positive behavioural change within businesses....

This article was written by Bruno Grippay. Bruno is an expert in procurement and project management with a passion for smart and sustainable mobility. "Au revoir" dear professor Latour, we will miss you! I will keep reading your books shaped by yo...

A report by the UK's Defence Ministry has claimed that the Russian soldiers have been abusing alcohol....

The club has accused Javier Tebas of being obsessed with persecuting the club....

Kashet, a Swiss-UK-based private banking startup, has come out of stealth mode after raising 5.4 million in an initial funding round....

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has selected Clifford Chance, R3 and G42 Cloud to assist in implementing its CBDC Strategy....

Denmark's Lunar bank is to offload its P2P business to Swedish investment platform SaveLend Group....

Fibre pumps provide a step towards wearable fluidic systems for physical assistance and thermal regulation The post Researchers develop the missing component in robotic textiles appeared first on Physics World ....